Bill Text: TX HB118 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the provision of notice by certain hospitals regarding patients' medical records.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB118 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB118-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 118 | ||
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| relating to requiring the provision of notice by certain hospitals | ||
| regarding patients' medical records. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 241.103, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) A hospital shall provide written notice to a patient, or | ||
| a patient's legally authorized representative as that term is | ||
| defined by Section 241.151, that the hospital, unless the exception | ||
| in Subsection (c) applies, may authorize the disposal of medical | ||
| records relating to the patient on or after the periods specified in | ||
| this section. The notice shall be provided to the patient or the | ||
| patient's legally authorized representative not later than the date | ||
| on which the patient who is or will be the subject of a medical | ||
| record is treated, except in an emergency treatment situation. In | ||
| an emergency treatment situation, the notice shall be provided to | ||
| the patient or the patient's legally authorized representative as | ||
| soon as is reasonably practicable following the emergency treatment | ||
| situation. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 118 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 7, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 118 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
